Entering the Now
Experiencing Self-Healing and Creativity
Amelia Barili with David Darling
August 22-24, 2008
Retreat at Omega, Rhinebeck, New York
Continuing Education Credits available
The latest discoveries in neuroscience confirm what the wisdom traditions of India and China have known for years: the body is a vast energetic network with a deep capacity for creativity and self-healing. Led by acclaimed international cellist David Darling and healer and qigong master Amelia Barili, we awaken to the immense potential of our vital, conscious energy and explore the relationship between healing and creativity. Through the easy but powerful practices of yoga, qigong, music improvisation, chanting, and movement, we experience expanded states of consciousness that promote creativity and healing. We also learn techniques for self-healing and overcoming negative emotions, giving us access to all dimensions of our being.
This workshop is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in exploring self-healing and creativity, and adds a new dimension to the therapeutic repertoire of health-care professionals. No previous experience with yoga, qigong, music, or any other art is required. Bring an instrument, if you have one; a journal; and drawing materials.
DAVID DARLING is a Grammy-nominated musician with many solo albums. He has appeared with a wide range of musical talents, including Bobby McFerrin, the Paul Winter Consort, Spyro Gyra, and Arlo Guthrie. Darling is founder and artistic director of Music for People, a nonprofit educational network dedicated to teaching and fostering music improvisation as a means of creative self-expression.
(This is the third in a series of dialogues with scientists, contemplatives and artists that Amelia Barili began with the workshop "Emerging Consciousness" with Fritjof Capra at Mount Madonna Center and continued with Ajahn Amaro at Spirit Rock. See next page)
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Self Healing - The Power of Yoga and Qigong
Amelia Barili
November 21-25, 2008
Retreat at Mount Madonna Center, Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Continuing Education Credits available
The practitioners of ancient healing traditions of India and China have known for thousands of years something that recent medical studies are just now confirming in our western culture: that the human body is not simply a biological machine but a vast energetic network. When our life energy is in balance we are healthy. If the balance is broken through stress, fear, grief, etc., our vital energy gets blocked and pain and disease set in. In order to heal ourselves, it is essential for us to let go of stagnant energy and regain our balance. Drawing from the healing wisdom traditions of India and China, Dr. Amelia Barili will teach you:
* to map and trace the main energy channels in your body
* to recognize how different types of emotions affect each organ and healing meditations for each one
* to gather and store energy from nature and increase your vitality
* acupressure style self-massage and release points to keep your energy flowing
* a form of breathing that balances and integrates both sides of the brain
These time-tested techniques are so simple that anyone can practice them. Practitioners experience increased energy and vitality, better sleep, less stress, improved concentration, enhanced performance and better relationships. Recommended for anyone who wants to lead a healthy and deeply satisfying life, as well as for counseling and health-care professionals. Women find this practice very beneficial to alleviate PMS, menopausal symptoms and disorders in the urinary and reproductive system.
* Continuing Education Credit for nurses, MFT/MFCC's, and LCSW's.
* Fulfills the spiritual practice prerequisite for John F. Kennedy University's Graduate School for Holistic Studies.
* An elective for YTT 500.
AMELIA BARILI, Ph.D., received her doctorate in Yoga Therapy and Philosophy in 1972 from Kaivalyadhama Yoga School in India and has taught Yoga internationally every since. She is also a disciple of Grandmaster Yang Mei Jun, the 27th generation inheritor of the Taoist Medical Qigong system developed in the sacred Kunlun Mountains in China and only recently brought to our western culture.
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